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advocacy@agecymru.org.uk or go to HOPE’s website: https://bit.ly/AC-HOPE. To make a referral to HOPE, please use this form: https://bit.ly/HOPE-REFERRAL or scan this QR code: 2 Become a HOPE Volunteer Would you ... help older people and their carers access services like utilities, GP, housing and benefits. Join us and we’ll train you to provide support to local older people and carers so they can help shape the
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asset 28 12 Disputing a decision / making a complaint 28 12.1 Support from an advocacy service 29 13 Useful organisations 29 14 Further information about Age Cymru 32 Factsheet 40w August 2024 ... your social services department If you have internet access, you can search for your local authority using your postcode on the Welsh Government’s website: www.gov.wales/find-your-local-authority Alternatively
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by the Retail Prices Index (RPI) in April 2011 so April 2012 was the first year the triple lock was used. Before the 2017 general election, the Conservative manifesto made a commitment to maintain the triple ... Commons/2017-06-21/65/ Allowance are increased in line with the CPI, while the levels of some working age benefits have been restricted or frozen for some time. State pensions uprating – background2
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the right to drugs, treatments and psychological therapies that have been recommended by NICE for use in the NHS, if your doctor says they are clinically appropriate for you’. (Annex 2, Change 7). Do you ... their families and their carers, taking account of their social and environmental circumstances and working, where necessary, with other agencies such as social care.’ Question 3: Protecting patients from
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............................................................................................. 9 Working with health care professionals ................................................................. ... research on ‘social prescribing’, both its use and efficacy, are still in early stages, findings here indicate it has the potential to make more effective use of health care resources and support medical
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this factsheet. Contact details for any organisation mentioned in this factsheet can be found in Useful organisation section. Age UK factsheet 27 February 2024 Planning for your funeral Page 2 of 32 ... medical research 16 8.3 Donating tissue for medical research 17 Useful organisations 18 Age UK 20 Support our work 20 Appendix 1: Useful information for nearest relative or friend 22 Age UK factsheet
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any specialist knowledge at all. Join our Readers’ Panel at www.ageuk.org.uk/readers-panel. 2) Tell us your story. Have you been affected by any of the issues in this guide? Has Age UK’s information and ... or action and cannot be used as a substitute for professional advice. Neither Age UK nor any of its subsidiary companies or charities accepts any liability arising from its use and it is the reader’s sole
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assumption that such transfers are unsuitable for the individual, which the FCA believes is no longer working well in practice. Key points and recommendations The high number of transfers out of Defined ... throughout their later life. While this consultation focusses on the advice regime, the FCA should also use this opportunity to consider what behavioural ‘nudges’ could be applied to people with a DB pension
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2015. Homelessness The European Typology of Homelessness and Housing Exclusion (ETHOS) provides a useful framework within which to consider homelessness.1 ETHOS sees a home as having three domains – an ... homeless older people themselves tend to cite external factors as the reason for homelessness, people working with older homeless people put greater emphasis on the personal attributes of the older homeless
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Reablement services should be offered on discharge from hospital where appropriate and NHS staff must work with local authorities to ensure older people are discharged in a timely, safe and appropriate manner ... basic needs such as nutrition and personal hygiene in a sensitive manner. • The Welsh Government must work with Local Health Boards to ensure there are appropriate staffing levels in all care settings at all
